For more than 20 years, Falk Maria Schlegel – also known as plain Christian Jost when he’s out of the corpsepaint – has been providing Powerwolf with their booming organ and ethereal keyboard embellishments. He formed the band with guitarist Matthew Greywolf and singer Attila Dorn, and, as chief organiser, he’s helped guide them to their current position as one of Europe’s biggest, flounciest metal exports.
New album Wake Up The Wicked is business as usual for the werewolf/vampire/Catholicism-obsessed Germans, with recent single 1589 telling the story of a man called Peter Stumpp, an alleged serial killer from Cologne who was known as ‘The werewolf of Bedburg’. But what have two decades of power metal theatre taught Falk Maria about life? That’s what we’re here to find out…
